Chop

/t͡ʃɒp/ · noun

Meaning

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib..

Definitions by Sense

1. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
2. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
3. (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
4. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
5. (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
6. (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
7. (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
8. (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.

Example Sentences

I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.

Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.

I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.

It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.

A karate chop.

With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.

E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]

It's peak when the mandem spotty I gonna need more than a dot-dot Capisce, got a problem for swinging this chop?

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Word Forms

• chops
• chopping
• chopped
• chap
• chapp
• chope

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